16th International Hawaii Summit 2019 | Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma | 23 April 2019 | Hawaiʻi Convention Center, 1801 Kalakaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA

The 16th Hawai`i International Summit is a multidisciplinary gathering of professionals working together to tackle the major issues in fields dealing with violence, abuse, and trauma. International and local speakers come together to share their findings on causation, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation at both the global level and at smaller, community-based levels.

Summit attendees will have the opportunity to gain continuing education credits and meet professional licensure requirements. The Summit is also a great opportunity to network not only within your field, but also with professionals in other fields that may provide valuable insight into how theory and research is applied at the other end of the line.

Goals of the 16th Hawai'i International Summit:
• Bringing together local, regional, national and international leaders, researchers, practitioners, consumer-survivors, policy makers and advocates, as well as those working on the frontlines with children, adults, and families to network and learn from each other
• Strategies to promote peace in the home and communities around the world
• Multidisciplinary solutions to prevent family violence, child maltreatment, sexual violence, trauma and compassion fatigue
• Dissemination of promising and best practices in prevention and intervention
• Linking research, practice, advocacy and policy
• Promotion of prevention programs
• Spotlight on current research and programs involving substance abuse and violence
• Advanced clinical/treatment techniques
• Opportunities/techniques to re-fuel, re-energize, and apply self-care
• Share new interventions, techniques and approaches
• Strategies to promote social change and social justice to eliminate oppression
• Dissemination of practical application techniques

2019 Speakers

Keawe Kaholokula, PhD
Department of Native Hawaiian Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine University of Hawaii, Manoa

Fred Luskin, PhD
Stanford University

2019 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Department of Education State of Hawaii
• Kamehameha Schools
• Department of Human Services

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Office of Youth Services
• Kaeru Services
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Sutter Health Kahi Mohala
• Catholic Charities Hawaii
• Child & Family Service
• Consuelo Foundation
• Hawaii State Department of Health
• Parents and Children Together

COPPER SPONSORS:
• Hawaii Pacific University
• EOA
• Hawaii School of Professional Psychology

SPECIAL THANKS:
• Becker Communication
• Children's Institute
• Family Programs Hawaii
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network